Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Avowry
it. Common-law pleading an acknowledgment - in an answer to a replevin action - that one has taken property, and a justification for that taking <the defendant's avowry was based on alleged damage to the property by the plaintiff>. - avow, vb. Cf. Cognizance (4).